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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2020 9:13:58 GMT
Electronic Voting Machine hacked by Computer Scientists (AccuVote-TS)Princeton computer scientists Ariel J. Feldman, J. Alex Halderman successfully hacking a Diebold (now Premier) electronic voting machine. They did this research as graduate students working with Edward W. Felten: citp.princeton.edu/research/votingsummary/The AccuVote-TS electronic voting machine is currently in use in the following precincts: AccuVote TS & TSX Use in 2016: (with Voter Verified Paper Trail): Statewide in Alaska and Utah, 7 counties in Arizona, 14 counties in California, 12 counties in Colorado, 60 jurisdictions in Illinois, 1 county in Kansas, 31 counties in Mississippi, 41 jurisdictions in Missouri, 41 counties in Ohio, 1 county in Washington, municipalities in 13 counties in Wisconsin, and 3 counties in Wyoming. (without Voter Verified Paper Trail): Statewide in Georgia, 16 counties in Florida, 20 counties in Indiana, 25 counties in Kansas, 1 county in Kentucky, 46 counties in Mississippi, 16 counties in Pennsylvania, 1 county in Tennessee, 8 counties in Texas, 10 localities in Virginia Data via: www.verifiedvoting.org/resources/voting-equipment/premier-diebold/accuvote-tsx/Very detailed information about where electronic voting equipment is in use available through VerifiedVoting.org www.verifiedvoting.org/resources/voting-equipment/This clip is an excerpt from the film, "Holler Back - [not] Voting in an American Town" hollerbackfilm.com/The film is directed and edited by lulu Fries'dat (c) Shugah Works shugahworks.com/Twitter: @shugahworks contact via our website shugahworks.com/contact/The clip also features Jonathan Simon of The Election Defense Alliance and author of Code Red codered2014.com/Levi Price Former Chief of Staff, Lehigh County PA Matt Bishop of UC Davis nob.cs.ucdavis.edu/bishop/Brad Friedman of The Brad Blog bradblog.com/Jesse Tendler Green Party Recount Coordinator Ohio 2004
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2020 9:14:25 GMT
A Hacker Shows Us How Easy it is To Manipulate Voting Machines
FUSION Published on Sep 1, 2016 Earlier this week the FBI confirmed breaches have been detected in electronic voter registration databases in Arizona and Illinois. The FBI is now urging states to take new steps to enhance the security of their computer systems ahead of the November election. We traveled across the state and found that elections are messy and hacking isn't as uncommon as you think.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2020 9:14:52 GMT
Hillary Actually Won - Professor Mark Crispin Miller Reveals Election Fraud!
Published on Nov 11, 2016 Mark Crispin Miller is a Professor of Media, Culture and Communications at New York University. He’s the author of “Fooled Again: The Real Case for Electoral Reform” and “Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy.” Lee Camp interviews this brilliant academic to find out exactly how our elections are compromised and how our most basic democratic right has been ripped away from us.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2020 9:15:35 GMT
Have you noticed that this executive order by Trump is only for FOREIGNERS who meddle in US elections? Nothing said about DOMESTIC meddling in elections. The fact is the GOP and Republicans do 99% of ALL ELECTION MEDDLING in US elections. This is just a desperate Trump GOP Public Relations stunt. Remember how apoplectic Republicans were about the enormous amount of executive orders Obama signed? Trump has FAR SURPASSED anything Obama has done in sheer numbers.
There may be a Blue Wave coming but it can be turned into a Red Wave with the flip of a vote tally switch election night as it has been hundreds of times before.
Trump OKs sanctions for foreigners who meddle in elections
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday authorizing sanctions against foreigners who meddle in U.S. elections, acting amid criticism that he has not taken election security seriously enough.
"We felt it was important to demonstrate the president has taken command of this issue, that it's something he cares deeply about — that the integrity of our elections and our constitutional process are a high priority to him," said national security adviser John Bolton.
In the order, the president declared a national emergency, an action required under sanctions authority, to deal with the threat of foreign meddling in U.S. elections.
The order calls for sanctioning any individual, company or country that interferes with campaign infrastructure, such as voter registration databases, voting machines and equipment used for tabulating or transmitting results. It also authorizes sanctions for engaging in covert, fraudulent or deceptive activities, such as distributing disinformation or propaganda, to influence or undermine confidence in U.S. elections.
It requires the national intelligence director to make regular assessments about foreign interference and asks the Homeland Security and Justice departments to submit reports on meddling in campaign-related infrastructure. It also lays out how the Treasury and State departments will recommend what sanctions to impose.
With the midterm elections now two months away, National Intelligence Director Dan Coats said the U.S. is not currently seeing the intensity of Russian intervention that was experienced in 2016, but he didn't rule it out. He said the U.S. is also worried about the cyber activities of China, North Korea and Iran.
Coats said Trump's order directs intelligence agencies to conduct an assessment within 45 days after an election to report any meddling to the attorney general and Department of Homeland Security. The attorney general and Department of Homeland Security then have another 45 days to assess whether sanctions should be imposed.
"This clearly is a process put in place to try to assure that we are doing every possible thing we can, first of all, to prevent any interference with our elections, to report on anything we see between now and the election, but then to do a full assessment after the election to assure the American people just exactly what may have happened or may not have happened," Coats said.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., are pushing a bill that would prohibit foreign governments from purchasing election ads, using social media to spread false information or disrupting election infrastructure. They said Trump's order recognizes the threat, but doesn't go far enough.
The order gives the executive branch the discretion to impose sanctions for election meddling, but the bill would spell out sanctions on key economic sectors of a country that interferes. Those backing the legislation say that under the bill, a nation would know exactly what it would face if caught.
Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, ranking Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee, said the order leaves the president with broad discretion to decide whether to impose tough sanctions. "Unfortunately, President Trump demonstrated in Helsinki and elsewhere that he simply cannot be counted upon to stand up to (Russian President Vladimir) Putin when it matters," said Warner, who is sponsoring the bill.
At a July 16 news conference with Putin in Helsinki, Trump was asked if he would denounce what happened in 2016 and warn Putin never to do it again. Trump did not directly answer the question. Instead, he delivered a rambling response, including demands for investigation of Hillary Clinton's email server and his description of Putin's "extremely strong and powerful" denial of meddling.
That drew outrage from both Republican and Democrats.
Trump has pushed back, saying that no other American president has been as tough on Russia. He has cited U.S. sanctions and the expulsion of alleged Russian spies from the U.S.
Mike Rogers, former director of the National Security Agency, said he thought Trump missed an opportunity in Helsinki to publicly scold Russia for meddling. Rogers said when he used to talk to Trump about the issue, Trump would often respond to him, saying "Mike, you know, I'm in a different place."
Rogers said he would tell Trump: "Mr. President, I understand that, but I'm paid by the citizens of the nation to tell you what we think. Sir, this is not about politics, it's not about parties. It's about a foreign state that is attempting to subvert the very tenets of our structure."
In his first public comments since he retired in June, Rogers said: "That should concern us as citizens. That should concern us leaders. And if we don't do something, they (the Russians) are not going to stop."
Rogers, who spoke Tuesday night at the Hayden Center at George Mason University in Virginia, also said earlier media reports claiming Trump had asked him to publicly deny any collusion between Moscow and Trump's campaign were inaccurate.
James Clapper, the former national intelligence director who appeared with Rogers and other former intelligence officials, said he personally believes that the Russian interference did influence the outcome of the 2016 election, but didn't elaborate.
"The Russians are still at it. They are committed to undermining our system," Clapper said. "One of the things that really disturbs me is — that for whatever reason, I don't know what it is — the president's failure to dime out Putin and dime out the Russians for what they are doing."
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2020 9:16:01 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2020 9:17:06 GMT
ELECTION 2016MAY 9, 2017 Wisconsin’s Voter-ID Law Suppressed 200,000 Votes in 2016 (Trump Won by 22,748) A new study shows how voter-ID laws decreased turnout among African-American and Democratic voters.
www.thenation.com/article/wisconsins-voter-id-law-suppressed-200000-votes-trump-won-by-23000/
“Americans’ fundamental right to vote is under attack by Republican governors and state legislatures around the country,” said Guy Cecil, Chairman of Priorities USA. “Under the false pretense of combating voter fraud, Republicans are passing laws that make it more difficult and time-consuming for average citizens to participate in the democratic process.”
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2020 9:17:49 GMT
The Big Picture: 6 Lessons From The Primaries Primary season is over. Here’s what we’ve learned heading into these potentially consequential midterm elections: 1. First and foremost, the election of Donald Trump spurred Democratic women into action. This fall, a record number of women will be on the ballot for the House and governors’ races — and, overwhelmingly, they are Democrats. 2. Democratic enthusiasm has been high, as evidenced by high primary turnout. Trump has been the motivating factor on both sides, but even more so for Democrats in most races. Liberal enthusiasm is sky high, but Republicans aren’t as depressed as the opposition parties were in midterms in 2006 or 2010. 3. Progressives have had some key victories but ... they will likely not change the makeup of Congress in a significant way. They have, however, most notably forced the party to address their priorities like health care and education. 4. Diverse candidates are the ones who have carried the liberal populist message. Remember, Bernie Sanders only got about 1-in-5 black voters in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries and a third of Latinos, and that wasn’t enough to win the presidential nomination. But in these primaries it’s been non-white progressives who have succeeded in making that message mainstream. 5. Compromise is sounding like a dirty word for both parties. Candidates have taken a no-holds-barred approach. It remains to be seen if that was a just a primary strategy or if they will shift to win a broader electorate in the fall. 6. Republicans have embraced Trump and now are attached to him — for good or ill. The congressional ballot — which party voters prefer to control Congress — is starting to mirror Trump’s approval rating and that is bad news for Republicans. As GOP leaders have defended the president and candidates have parroted him, voters are making it clear that they are no longer separating the Republican candidates from the president.
— Domenico Montanaro, NPR's lead political editor
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 16, 2020 10:12:16 GMT
GOP Vote Fraud In OH, KY, VA, FL, AZ, CO, NV, MN, NH And Elsewhere by Integrity 11 Dec 2015
The November 2015 election saw Republican Secretary of State of Ohio Husted involved in vote fraud which denied the majority of Ohio voters their win in legalizing pot. It saw Kentucky Republican election officials go to jail for falsely installing a man behind in the polls in the governor's chair by a landslide.
I Unpostmarked Absentee Ballots AND Absentee Ballots IN General
Ohio Republican Secretary of State Husted has attempted to deflect investigation of his role in suppressing the votes of a majority of Ohioans who voted to decriminalize marijuana. He is accusing the USPS of having delivered unpostmarked absentee ballots.
Absentee ballots, whether postmarked or unpostmarked, are an easy avenue to vote fraud for the minority Republican Party.
II Time That Neither Duopoly Party (D OR R) Should Control Elections
It is time that members of neither the Democrat nor Republican Party supervise elections.
This is the state in which the Republicans will hold their 2016 convention.
III IS THE US THE Only Country IN Which THE Party OF THE Rich Owns THE Voting Machines
A. Mitt Romney's son bought a voting machine company with machines in Cincinnati Ohio *4
B. Diebold's CEO Wally O'Dell at the Fairlawn Hilton in Fairlawn ohio promised a Republican fundraising crowd that Diebold would do everything it could to bring an election victory to Republicans. Diebold to avoid lawsuits over massive fraud in many states sold their voting machine division but the easily hackable machines remain in several Ohio counties including Portage. There is a video of Bev Harris showing Al Gore how easy it was to hack a voting machine. *5
Summit County Board of Elections votes not to count absentee ballots delivered without postmarks *1
In Hamilton, Portage, Summit and other counties there was vote fraud by Republicans.
Secretary of State Husted, Republican Ohio, was involved in criminal vote suppression in a variety of ways in the November 2015 election. The following article represents a fraction of them. *2
Ohioans voted to legalize marijuana. Husted stole that vote, and like many other criminals, decided to attack the opposition.
Other vote fraud by Husted:
I
John Husted, Republican Secretary of State in Ohio, has summarily and dictatorially quashed the extensive work of residents of Medina, Athens, and Fulton County Ohio, 3 communities in which petitions were gathered to put antifracking measures on their ballots. Husted, beholden to fracking, oil and gas contributors, has acted in violation of local democracy.
II
Husted has taken it upon himself to insert the word 'monopoly' in the ballot language, to imply falsely that passing the legislation would create a monopoly.
Republican candidates receive money from alcohol businesses which like the ATF and police departments fearing loss of jobs are opposed to legalization of pot.
III
Husted has tried in many ways to limit the franchise and to cut back on early voting.
1 fox8.com/2015/11/19/summit-county-board-of-elections-votes-not-to/
2 theantimedia.org/sorry-ohio-you-may-have-lost-out-on-legal-weed-t/
3 Hamilton County vote fraud www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2015/11/ohio_election_results_de
4 Mitt Romney's son bought a voting machine company with machines in Hamilton County
5 Diebold's voting machines and politics
www.motherjones.com/politics/2004/03/diebolds-political-machine
'Televised screen shots taken Tuesday night of live election returns in Ohio provided by the Secretary of State's office showed hundreds of thousands of votes flipping from the "yes" to "no" column of Issue 3, the ballot measure to legalize marijuana.' From Alternet.org link below
www.alternet.org/drugs/was-ohios-marijuana-vote-stolen-tv-screen-
In Ohio there was strong support for marijuana legalization, but Ohio Republican fraud
with the help of Diebold machines (they are still around despite Diebold's having sold the company) and criminal operatives in Portage, Hamilton and other counties were involved in no recording of yes votes or in flipping yes votes by the hundreds of thousands to no, and so stealing the legalization of pot for medican marijuana and private use from the citizens of Ohio. Ohio Republicans kept John Kerry out of the White House in 2004.
Republican vote fraud in several counties defeats marijuana legalization in Nov 20156 despite polls indicating Ohio 56% in favor.
www.wkyc.com/story/news/features/marijuana-amendment/2015/10/13/m/
Hamilton County, Ohio covers Cincinnati. It is the county in which Mitt Romney's son bought a voting machine company during his father's campaign for president
Hamilton County Ohio vote fraud www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2015/11/ohio_election_results_de /> Portage County Ohio vote fraud Diebold machines www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/11/computer_problems_delay /> /> www.co.portage.oh.us/Portage%20County';;s%20Unofficial%20Canvass-1.htm Issue 3 - Constitutional Amendment - Marijuana Total Number of Precincts 130 Precincts Reporting 130 100.0% Vote For 1 Times Counted 43576/99434 43.8% Total Votes 43090 YES 16712 38.78% NO
Secretary of State Husted's network made sure that despite poll support for pot in Ohio, it would fail. Note the 'times counted' below. These were Diebold machines. Diebold sold the company but there is widespread knowledge that their machines can be hacked in 3 minutes.
The following is just one of the counties in which computers mysteriously failed to work
Notice the 'times counted' figure. www.co.portage.oh.us/Portage%20County';;s%20Unofficial%20Canvass-1.htm Issue 3 - Constitutional Amendment - Marijuana Total Number of Precincts 130 Precincts Reporting 130 100.0% Vote For 1 Times Counted 43576/99434 43.8% Total Votes 43090 YES 16712 38.78% NO
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 16, 2020 10:12:49 GMT
ELSEWHERE KENTUCKY
Since Bradblog was written Kentucky Republican election officials have gone to jail for criminally giving a landslide victory to a Republican behind in the polls. Yet the fraudulently installed Kentucky governor remains in office.
www.bradblog.com/?p=7001%3C/strong%3E%3C/p%3E
IN EIGHT STATES NATHAN SPROUL, HIRED BY MCCAIN AND OTHER REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES, RAN A FRAUDULENT VOTER REGISTRATION DRIVE. HIS OPERATIVES THREW AWAY ALL DEMOCRATIC REGISTRATIONS
www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/20/mccain-employing-gop-oper_n_136
GOP Voter Fraud In Jeb Bush's FL, OH, NH, NC, TX, AZ, VA, NC, CA, CO, OR, MN Etc by Saiom Shriver The Republican Party has through hundreds of categories suppressed and stolen the franchise of the American people for over 100 years.
SUPREME COURT
The 2000 majority Republican Supreme Court allowed 2 of Justice Scalia's sons to appear before the court for Bush. Scalia refused to recuse himself. Republicans on the court ordered the recount stopped.
In 2013, Chief Justice John Roberts and 4 other Republicans gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965, striking down a provision that the federal government watchdog voting regulations in the most racist Southern states.
Long before that, as an attorney in the Reagan Justice Department, Roberts repeatedly argued that even if a regulation has a discriminatory effect, those whose franchise has been stolen must prove intention to discriminate.
Since the US was founded, the Supreme Court has quashed democracy in the US. It is time to elect Supreme Court justices, one every year, and to give them 9 or 18 year terms. No nation which does not elect its seemingly omnipotent courts can call itself a democracy.
FLORIDA
1. In 2000, Jeb Bush removed many thousand voters from rolls. Florida was 11% black. 44% of the names erased from the voter roles were black. He stole the election from Al Gore.
2. He coconspired with the Jacksonville Times Union to publish a special newspaper edition in the black community, instructing all to vote every page of the ballot. 20,000 ballots were eliminated.
3. He sent police to blockade voting precincts in black and Democrat neighborhoods.
4. Jeb Bush falsely classified 12,000 blacks as felons and removed them from the voting roles.
ARIZONA CALIFORNIA COLORADO FLORIDA MINNESOTA NORTH CAROLINA NEVADA OREGON VIRGINIA
In at least nine states, Nathan Sprull and his Strategic Allied Consulting were subcontracted by the Republican National Committee which was aware that in the past Sprull and his operatives had routinely masked their operation as voter registration drives. They consistently threw away hundreds of thousands of Democrats' registrations. Sprull was used by not only the RNC but by the McCain and Romney presidential campaigns. (See links below)
COLORADO
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/05/us/politics/nathan-sproul-a-republican
TEXAS
Texas Republicans have conspired to commit more violations of the Voting Rights Act than any other state.
NORTH CAROLINA
Republicans removed every reform and expansion of voting. They ended same day registration, longer hours during the day to register. NAACP activists went to jail to protest the new Jim Crows instituted by the Republican Party of NC.
NEW HAMPSHIRE FRAUD
In New Hampshire, Republican operatives went to jail for conspiring to jam the voter access phone lines for handicapped Democrats. The operation was coordinated by James Tobin out of the Bush White House.
www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/fbi-investigating-voter-registr
OHIO
Few have devised as many ways to cheat the electorate as the Ohio Republican Party has for over 100 years.
In Ohio W. O'Dell, head of the Diebold voting machine company, told an audience at a Republican fundraiser that he would do everything he could to put Ohio in the Republican column. And so he did. The mounting evidence of Diebold fraud in many states caused the company to sell its voting machine division.
Extensive gerrymandering by the fraudulently elected Ohio legislature eliminated the seat of wold renowned Dennis Kucinich.
The Bush network locked Democrats out of counting rooms in Warren Ohio, stole whole ballot boxes, removed voting machines from campus precincts, kept people waiting in the rain at some precincts,, etc. Because Ohio Republicans reduced voting machine numbers in Democratic precincts, the average wait to vote in a black district was 50 some minutes in 2004, while in a Republican district it was 18 minutes. Democratic absentee voter ballots disappeared.
The current Secretary of State Husted has tried to cut back early voting, weekend voting, etc and to keep the Libertarian Party off of the ballot (while in Iowa, the Libertarian, with 4% of the Iowans' votes projected, mysteriously died in a plane crash putting Koch Brothers supported Ernst (who bragged she castrated piglets) in the Senate.
He announced that Donald Trump would not be able to run as an independent in the presidential election because of Ohio's 'sore loser' law.
However in most states the sore loser laws don't apply to presidential candidates.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sore-loser_law
RADIO SHOW On the radio show Fresh Air of WHYY, Ari Berman discusses a variety of Republican vote fraud incidents outlined in his book
www.npr.org/2015/08/10/431238980/block-the-vote-a-journalist-disc
FLORIDA
Have We Forgotten That Jeb Bush Committed Election Fraud in 'Bush v Gore' Scam?
www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/10/jeb-bush-florida-felon-votin
www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/04/have-we-forgotten-that-jeb-bush-c/
In 2012, the Florida Republican Party finally cut ties with Strategic Allied Consulting, the firm of Nathan Sproul which portrayed itself as an unbiased voter registration drive and threw away Democratic registrations in at least 8 states. In at least 10 counties, fraud came to light.
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/05/us/politics/nathan-sproul-a-republican
www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/17/rick-scott-gop-voter-fraud_n_36
OHIO
Vote fraud in Ohio How Ohio was delivered criminally to Bush
whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/2004votefraud_ohio.html
9 STATE VOTE FRAUD BY REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE, MCCAIN AND ROMNEY CAMPAIGNS.... CONSPIRACY TO THROW AWAY DEMOCRATIC REGISTRATIOSN
8 state vote fraud as Republicans throw away Dem voter registrations
www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/fbi-investigating-voter-registr
www.thenation.com/article/gop-quietly-hires-firm-tied-voter-fraud/
www.bradblog.com/?p=9586
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/05/us/politics/nathan-sproul-a-republican
NEW HAMPSHIRE FRAUD
New Hampshire operatives go to jail over jamming Democrat handicapped voter ride access phone lines
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/16/AR200605
Green Party asks FBI to step in re voter fraud
www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/11/05/18725130.php
www.salon.com/2014/05/05/exclusive_new_emails_reveal_ohio_gops_vo/
NEVADA
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/05/us/politics/nathan-sproul-a-republican
NORTH CAROLINA WORST JIM CROW LAW IN NATION
www.occupy.com/article/north-carolina-protesters-call-end-worst-v
watchdog.org/173632/ohio-libertarians-ballot-access/
Republicans once again want voter ID card required... want to end 226 year tradition.
www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/04/29/photo-id-voting
Black Box Voting
blackboxvoting.org/
www.votescam.org/the_evidence
Bev Harris demonstrated to Al Gore that within 3 minutes Repubilcans were able to hack into voting computers and change the numbers.
media.caglecartoons.com/media/cartoons/17/2012/10/03/119771_600.j
Ohio election stolen in 2004
www.commondreams.org/views06/0601-34.htm
NEW HAMPSHIRE FRAUD
New Hampshire operatives go to jail over jamming Democrat handicapped voter ride access phone lines
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/16/AR200605
Most incidents of voter fraud are Republican
www.addictinginfo.org/2013/06/21/shocker-republicans-account-for-/
Ari Berman's several columns on Republican vote fraud in The Nation
www.thenation.com/authors/ari-berman/
Media want us to forget Jeb Bush's role as thief of the US presidential election in 2000. www.occupydemocrats.com/jeb-bush-wants-us-to-forget-his-election-/ www.thenation.com/authors/ari-berman/
VIRGINIA
In Harrisonburg Virginia, an employee of Nathan Sproul's Strategic Allied Consultin,employed bya the Republican Party of Virginia, McCain, and many other campaign managers, dumped all Democratic registration forms.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/virginia-voter-frau
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www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/08/10/18775981.php
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www.toledoblade.com/news/State/2015/08/25/Husted-inserts-monopoly www.wlwt.com/news/order-of-ohio-ballot-issues-set-language-still- responsibleohioans.org/
www.theweedblog.com/marijuana-legalization-ballot-language-approv/
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 16, 2020 10:13:20 GMT
This is but ONE example how Republiconservatives win elections. It is the only way they can keep power because they certainly can't win in a fair election. And they usually do it right before the election when their victims either don't realize it until they go to the polls to vote or it is too late to appeal. One Republican Official Challenged Thousands Of Voter Registrations In His County. It Could Happen Elsewhere.Dana Liebelson, HuffPost•September 17, 2018
Laws like the one in Texas have recently been used to challenge large numbers of voter registrations. (Brian Snyder / Reuters)
AUSTIN, Texas ― In late July, Alan Vera, the chair of the Harris County Republican Party’s Ballot Security Committee, put on a patriotic necktie, walked into the voter registration office in Houston and challenged the registrations of some 4,000 voters — there were duplicates — in his county.
A few weeks later, Lynn Lane, the official photographer for the Houston Grand Opera, noticed a letter he’d sorted for recycling. The county voting registrar, the letter said, had received information that his current address was different than the one on his registration record, and he had 30 days to respond. When Lane checked his voter registration status online, he said, it was already listed as suspended. But Lane — an active voter and a Democrat — has lived in the same location for five years, he told HuffPost.
At least 15 states, including Texas, have laws that allow challenges to a voter’s registration before an election; more than 20 states permit private citizens to challenge a voter at the polls without offering documentation that the voter is ineligible, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. Historically, challenge laws were enacted and used to suppress the votes of people of color and women, the Brennan Center said. In recent years, Americans — including Republican officials and anti-voter fraud activists — have tried to use these measures to challenge large numbers of voters at once.
“It does seem to be something that voter integrity vigilantes are seeing as a tool that they can use to go after people and make the voting process more difficult,” said Jonathan Brater, counsel for the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program.
Civil rights advocates are worried about this latest effort in Texas. Several groups wrote a letter, dated Sept. 10, to the Texas Secretary of State Rolando Pablos requesting that his office “publicly disavow these generalized, unsubstantiated, and targeted challenges as anti-democratic, voter suppression tactics.” (The Texas Civil Rights Project provided the letter to HuffPost.)
The Texas Secretary of State’s office did not comment by deadline.
What exactly happened in Harris County is confusing. Here’s the short version: After Vera filed his challenge, the county registrar said some 1,700 of those roughly 4,000 voters were mistakenly placed on a suspension list, according to the Houston Chronicle. That meant they could still vote, but if they didn’t correspond with the county or vote in the next two federal elections, they would be removed from the voter rolls.
The registrar, a Democrat, blamed the suspensions on a software glitch, which was corrected fairly quickly. But Vera’s challenge, which precipitated the county’s reported mistake, didn’t comply with the state law in the first place, the assistant county attorney argued, because it didn’t appear to be based on Vera’s personal knowledge of the voters.
Vera, who lives in Houston, has about seven people who work with him on election issues, he told HuffPost. His challenges were scattered across the county, not concentrated in certain neighborhoods. He focused on people whose listed addresses were facilities such as P.O. boxes and churches. Dozens of people are registered, for example, at the Lord of the Streets (LOTS) Episcopal Church in Houston, according to the list obtained by HuffPost.
The church provides a permanent mailing address for people who are homeless or unstably housed, Rev. Steve Capper, vicar and executive director of LOTS, told HuffPost. The church does not invest time in verifying where people reside, he said, since they must have a valid ID to qualify to receive mail at the LOTS facility.
“We certainly encourage them to vote,” Capper said. “We tie it into the idea of restoring dignity through contributing to the common good.”
Vera argues that he did indeed have personal knowledge of the facts of each location. He was trying not to keep people from voting, he told HuffPost, but to make sure people voted in the correct local elections.
“It got blown totally out of proportion by errors at the county level,” he said.
Vera is a former national poll-watcher trainer for True the Vote, a conservative group that focuses on combating voter fraud — which is veryuncommon — and has supported aggressive efforts to scrutinize voter rolls.
True the Vote did not respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.
Vera told HuffPost he became interested in True the Vote because his wife told him to be.
What’s particularly concerning about registration challenges, the Brennan Center’s Brater said, is the “ability of one person or a small group of people to file challenge after challenge without anyone really realizing what was going on.” You could imagine a scenario, he added, where a challenge doesn’t get reported on and “suddenly, hundreds or thousands of people are removed.”
Vera, in the meantime, told HuffPost that he urged citizens in every state to “become actively involved in their election process” and check that “the people we pay to run these correctly are doing their job.”
“Get involved,” he said. “And do it legally.”
Lane, the photographer, suggested the process Vera started in Harris County just ended up with “a lot of people” being “confused.”
•This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
www.yahoo.com/news/one-republican-official-challenged-thousands-200709837.html
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 16, 2020 10:13:47 GMT
JUDGE ALLOWS REPUBLICONS TO STEAL UPCOMING GEORGIA ELECTIONFederal judge rejects paper ballots for 2018 Georgia electionUpdated 8 hours ago By Mark Niesse, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A federal judge ruled Monday that Georgia can continue using electronic voting machines in November’s election despite concerns they could be hacked.
U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg denied a request for an injunction that would have forced the state’s 6.8 million voters to switch to hand-marked paper ballots.
Totenberg made her decision in an ongoing lawsuit from voters and election integrity organizations who say Georgia’s direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting machines are untrustworthy and insecure. Georgia is one of five states that relies entirely on electronic voting machines without a verifiable paper backup.
Her 46-page order Monday said she was concerned about “voter frustration and disaffection from the voting process” if she had prohibited electronic voting machines just weeks before the election.
“There is nothing like bureaucratic confusion and long lines to sour a citizen,” Totenberg wrote.
Georgia election officials had warned of chaos if the state were forced to change to paper on short notice before a major election. Early voting begins Oct. 15 for the Nov. 6 election featuring the governor’s race between Democrat Stacey Abrams and Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who is responsible for elections administration.
Totenberg criticized state election officials, writing that they “had buried their heads in the sand” about the vulnerabilities of Georgia’s voting system.
Election officials said in court last week the government would have struggled to find money to buy enough paper ballots, count them in a timely manner, ensure accuracy and prevent long lines.
Voters voted in the primary election at Henry W. Grady High School in Atlanta on May 22, 2018. JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) But the plaintiffs in the case said Georgia shouldn’t risk moving forward with an election that’s vulnerable to tampering from Russians or others.
They said Georgia’s touchscreens could be penetrated and election results changed without leaving a trace. Without a paper ballot backup, there’s no way to tell if an election is altered, and no way to correct potential errors.
One of the plaintiffs, Marilyn Marks of the Coalition for Good Governance, said government officials have failed to respond to repeated warnings about electronic voting systems.
“The defendants’ failed to make any efforts to prepare for secure November elections,” Marks said. “Although the concerns of a transition to paper ballots are exaggerated, the defendants can create a self-fulfilling prophecy of Election Day chaos and voter disenfranchisement.”
There’s no evidence that Georgia’s 27,000 touchscreen voting machines have been hacked during an election, but tech experts say malware could be written so that it’s undetectable.
Kemp said state and local governments have been preparing for the election for months. He said Georgia’s electronic voting machines are secure.
“We’ve made it very clear that (paper ballots) would be a disaster for this election. That’s something that will throw us into chaos,” Kemp said.
Georgia was the first state in the country to switch to all-electronic voting devices in 2002. At the time, the technology was seen as a way to avoid the kind of problems seen in Florida during the 2000 presidential election, when ballots with hanging chads led to recounts.
Today, most voters in the United States cast their ballots on a system that includes a paper record that can be checked for accuracy.
RELATED: Read Judge Totenberg’s order on paper ballots
Skepticism about electronic voting machines increased after the 2016 presidential election, when Russians attempted to interfere with the outcome.
In Georgia, a Russian agent visited election websites in Cobb and Fulton counties in October 2016, according to an indictment in July as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. The agent didn’t gain access to state or county election systems, according to the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office.
“It’s a huge risk for every Georgia voter. ... The current system is hopelessly unsecure,” said David Cross, an attorney for a group of Georgia voters who are plaintiffs in the lawsuit. “We read the decision as essentially saying it’s too late for something at this point, but for the 2020 elections, there will be a change.”
The Coalition for Good Governance will seek a ruling to mandate paper ballots for runoff elections Dec. 4, 2018, Marks said.
Georgia legislators are considering a transition to a paper-based voting system in time for the 2020 presidential election. They plan to consider bills next year to buy a system that uses either hand-marked paper ballots or touchscreens to fill in a paper ballot.
— AJC staff writer Greg Bluestein contributed to this article.
www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/federal-judge-rejects-paper-ballot-effort-for-2018-georgia-election/MPNGITqPbZ9wYfZ0NEP1IJ/
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 16, 2020 10:14:16 GMT
Conservative Crony Capitalism at work!!Maryland elections company bought by Russian oligarch close to PutinByteGrid hosts voter registration, ballot delivery and more Russians tried to hack Clinton on day Trump urged search Associated Press in Annapolis, Maryland Sat 14 Jul 2018 09.13 EDT Last modified on Mon 16 Jul 2018 06.40 EDT
Maryland Senate president Thomas V Mike Miller, left, and House speaker Michael Busch discuss an FBI briefing. Photograph: Brian Witte/AP
A company that provides key services for Maryland elections has been bought by a parent company with links to a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin, state officials said on Friday after a briefing a day earlier from the FBI.
Trump responds to Mueller indictments – by blaming Obama Read more www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/14/donald-trump-robert-mueller-indictments-barack-obama-russia
Maryland officials spoke hours after the US justice department released a grand jury indictment against 12 Russian military intelligence officers for computer hacking offenses during the 2016 US election, which US intelligence agencies agree Moscow sought to influence in favor of Donald Trump.
Senate president Thomas V Mike Miller and House speaker Michael Busch made the announcement at a news conference in the Maryland State House in Annapolis, a gathering that included staff members of Governor Larry Hogan.
Miller said the announcement of the 12 indictments by special counsel Robert Mueller convinced Maryland officials to disclose their own FBI briefing, even if the agents who briefed them were not eager to make the information public.
“They weren’t really anxious for us to come forward but after today we felt we had an obligation to share it with you and share it with our constituents that this has occurred and we want the public to know this as well,” Miller said.
Busch said: “The FBI conveyed to us that there is no criminal activity that they’ve seen. They believe that the system that we have has not been breached.”
In a letter, Hogan, Busch and Miller asked the US Department of Homeland Security for technical assistance to evaluate the network used by the elections board.
In a statement, Maryland’s elections board said it was not the state election office mentioned in the federal indictment. The board also said no Maryland election official has used or is using services provided by the vendor referenced in the indictment.
The vendor used by Maryland, ByteGrid, was purchased by a Russian investor in 2015 without knowledge of Maryland state officials, officials said. In a statement released late on Friday the company said: “ByteGrid’s investors have no involvement or control in company operations.”
It also said: “We stand by our commitment to security in everything we do, and do not share information about who our customers are and what we do for them.”
ByteGrid encouraged people to read the company’s Maryland elections contract, which is a public record. State officials said ByteGrid hosts the statewide voter registration, candidacy and election management system; the online voter registration system; online ballot delivery system; and unofficial election night results website.
In a statement, the state elections board said the FBI told officials that ByteGrid is financed by AltPoint Capital Partners, whose fund manager is a Russian, and its largest investor is a Russian oligarch named Vladimir Potanin. The board said that in response, it has been working with various federal and state officials to ensure that voter data and the state’s election systems are secure.
Busch described the leading investor as being “very close to the Russian prime minister, Vladimir Putin”.
Miller said Maryland officials decided it was “imperative that our constituents know that a Russian oligarch has purchased our election machinery, and we need to be on top of it”.
In a statement, Hogan said: “It is with concern that I learned that information provided to the Maryland State Board of Elections by federal law enforcement this week indicates that a vendor contracted by the Board to provide a number of services, including voter registration infrastructure, had been acquired by a parent company with financial ties to a Russian national.”
Hogan said that while the information relayed by the FBI did not indicate “any wrongdoing or criminal acts have been discovered”, he noted that even the appearance of the potential for “bad actors” to have any influence on the state’s election infrastructure could undermine public trust in the election system.
“That is why it is imperative that the State Board of Elections take immediate and comprehensive action to evaluate the security of our system and take any and all necessary steps to address any vulnerabilities,” Hogan said.
Russians tried to hack Clinton server on day Trump urged email search Read more www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/13/russians-hillary-clinton-email-server-trump-indictment
Miller and Busch also said they have asked Maryland attorney general Brian Frosh to review existing contractual obligations of the state, and asked for a review of the system to ensure there have been no breaches.
Busch said there was no indication the company had anything to do with a voter registration error at the state’s Motor Vehicle Administration that created the potential for tens of thousands of voters to require provisional ballots in last month’s primary.
Maryland was one of the states with suspicious online activities before the 2016 election, according to the US Department of Homeland Security.
In August 2016, the state board says “unusual activity” was observed on the state’s online voter registration and ballot request system, and the board immediately responded. The board says it provided log files to the FBI, one of the state’s cybersecurity vendors and another cybersecurity firm, and all three independently reviewed the transactions related to the activity and found nothing suspicious.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/14/maryland-elections-company-russian-oligarch-putin
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 16, 2020 10:14:50 GMT
Since the New Deal, Republicans have been on the wrong side of every issue of concern to ordinary Americans; Social Security, the war in Vietnam, equal rights, civil liberties, church- state separation, consumer issues, public education, reproductive freedom, national health care, labor issues, gun policy, campaign-finance reform, the environment and tax fairness. No political party could remain so consistently wrong by accident. The only rational conclusion is that, despite their cynical "family values" propaganda, the Republican Party is a criminal conspiracy to betray the interests of the American people in favor of plutocratic and corporate interests, and absolutist religious groups. Why? Because they're evil GOP bastards! Wake-Up Progressives! Where Do We Go From Here? By Jack Hughes As the shock of the 2016 election results sink-in and the reality of total Republican control of the federal government along with an increasing majority of states, progressives are now, at long last, forced to assess what has happened and plan where to go from here. We must recognize that the Democratic Party is now utterly and completely powerless to prevent Republicans from steam-rolling their radical agenda through Congress. Anyone expecting Senate Democrats to filibuster Republican legislation still doesn't appreciate the nature of the Republican opposition or their current position of total political domination. After abusing the parliamentary tactic for the eight years of the Obama administration, Republicans will eliminate the filibuster the moment it becomes politically inconvenient. Since the Gingrich Revolution, Republicans have not been the "loyal opposition." They have violated every norm and every tradition -- at least since the Civil War -- of American politics and civil behavior. They have completely abandoned actual policy and governance in favor of shameless pandering to know-nothings and kooks, and using egregiously dishonest propaganda. For instance, every time Republicans use the terms "tax cut" and "balanced budget" in the same sentence they are knowingly committing political fraud. Right-wing propaganda has been so dishonest -- and so pervasive -- that the Republican base has become immune to historical facts, scientific data and rational discourse. For Republicans, politics has become total political war. Democrats have not understood this simple fact, which is why they -- we -- have continued to lose. What is meant by political total war? Consider it a cold civil war, or as Bill Maher described it, a slow-moving coup. Against the Democrats' traditional politics of issue advertising and get-out-the-vote efforts, Republicans have deployed a generation-long saturation campaign of dishonest propaganda that bears the hallmarks of a domestic psychological warfare operation; vote suppression and "voter caging" to reduce Democratic voter turnout; extreme gerrymandering to concentrate Democratic majorities into fewer numbers of congressional and legislative districts; and naked politicization of the courts. Due to the Republicans' "scientific" gerrymandering, Democrats routinely receive millions more votes, but are consistently consigned to minority status in the House of Representatives. It gets worse. There is every indication -- since exit polling is the only means to verify election results in the era of paperless electronic voting -- of extensive Republican election theft. Does anyone seriously believe that the radicals who engage in sleazy anti-democratic vote suppression in full public view would balk at tampering with election results behind closed doors? Yet Democratic Party officials -- even the stunned losing candidates -- refuse to even consider the possibility of election theft as they passively watch predicted victories unexpectedly and mysteriously transformed into defeats where Republicans control the vote counts. The ramifications are far too serious to ignore. These measures, i.e., extreme gerrymandering, vote-suppression and suspicious deviations between exit polls and official results that always favor Republicans, have led to de facto minority rule. Minority rule is tyranny -- the real kind -- not the phony hyperbole that Republicans dishonestly bleat about whenever a Democrat manages to get elected. What is the objective of all these sleazy anti-democratic tactics? In short, the establishment of corporate feudalism; to reduce the American middle class to low-paid, politically powerless peasants. The Big Money interests that finance the Republican Party and its propaganda machine don't love guns or hate abortion or despise homosexuals. Those issues are just a means to mobilize the rubes into voting against their own economic interests. www.takeoverworld.info/conservatism.htmThe middle-class fools who loyally vote Republican year after year have been brainwashed into mindlessly blaming Democrats for their decline in prosperity while our country has adopted “conservative” low-tax (for the rich) low-service (for everybody else) economic policies. Enjoy your toll roads and sky-rocketing tuition rates and health-care costs, suckers. Republicans are going to try to steal your Social Security and Medicare next. So where do we go from here?First, progressives must realize that 21st Century politics is now primarily a propaganda war to capture the limited attention span of low-information voters. The plutocrats have invested billions of dollars in a vertical network of foundations, policy institutes and think tanks, i.e., propaganda shops, to carefully craft cleverly deceptive over-simplifications, half-truths, distortions, and outright lies, along with a horizontal network of blogs, websites, radio shows and cable-TV channels to disseminate them. There is no similar advocacy structure for the interests of the poor and middle classes. This must change starting with -- at a minimum -- central coordination of consistent, coherent, and most of all sustained, policy messaging for progressives to deliver with a unified voice and common rhetoric. Simplicity and repetition is the key to successful propaganda. Second, Democrats are still bringing a book bag to a gun fight. The news media won't risk being branded as "biased" by exposing Republican lies. It's up to the Democrats to do it -- which means not just politely refuting dishonest Republican talking points -- but explicitly shaming right-wing PR flacks and politicians as "dirty goddam liars" by name and to their faces on national TV. Republicans must be forced on the defensive. Third, there is no reason for voters to turn out for "corporate Democrats" or "Conserva-Dems" owned by the same lobbyists and special interests that own the Republicans. The era of Blue Dog Democrats is over. Democrats must be divorced completely from special interests, freeing themselves to boldly inform voters that they've been deceived and screwed by Republican politicians and their oligarch masters. Democratic politicians can no longer simply present themselves to voters as "not Republicans." It's political suicide. Democrats must provide a truly progressive alternative. Fourth, street protests accomplish nothing when they are not tied to specific political objectives. In fact, they are often counter-productive when undisciplined and surge out of control -- used in right-wing propaganda to attack progressives and progressive ideals. Far more productive would be if those protestors dedicated five dollars a month -- or more -- to the Democratic Party and volunteered their time at the local party level. An influx of idealistic activists would re-build the Democratic Party into a more aggressive -- and much more progressive -- political party. These strategies must be enacted immediately, starting at the state party level -- especially in Red States -- and in time to affect the 2018 mid-term elections. Failure to do so will mean further Republican entrenchment, making it even more difficult to oust them from power. Success won't be immediate, but sooner or later, consistent and sustained progressive messaging will begin to penetrate the political consciousness of America's low-info voters. The time for timid, apologetic, progressivism is done. Only aggressive "Mad Dog Democrats" can reverse the current Republican strangle-hold on American politics and restore prosperity and justice to America. The most important consideration in total political war is to recognize the fact that we're engaged in one. Even in the "post-factual" environment Republicans have manufactured, there is no more powerful political weapon than the truth. If America is to survive as a liberal democracy, progressives must make Republicans choke on it.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 16, 2020 10:15:19 GMT
Carol Anderson on the myth of American democracy | The Ezra Klein Show Ezra Klein Show Published on Sep 24, 2018
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The president of the United States was the runner-up in the popular vote. The majority in the US Senate got fewer votes than the minority. And even if Democrats win a hefty majority of the vote in 2018’s House elections, Republicans, due to gerrymandering and geography, may retain control of the chamber.
But it’s not just the structure of our system that eats at America’s democratic claims. It’s the rules being layered on top of it. In 2017, 99 bills to limit voting have been introduced in 31 states. Recent years have seen an explosion of laws meant to make it harder for Americans — particularly nonwhite, young, and poorer Americans — to vote. America calls itself a democracy, but it's elected officials are actively working to make democratic participation harder.
This is nothing new, says Carol Anderson, chair of Emory’s African-American studies department, and author of the new book One Person, No Vote. Efforts to limit the franchise, to ensure power remained where it was even as the trappings of democracy gave it legitimacy, are as old as the country itself.
“Right now, our democracy is in crisis,” she says. This is a conversation about the distance between what America claims to be, what it is, and how much worse it can get. It's about the continuity between past violations of our democracy that we all understand and condemn and present violations that cloak their true nature.
With the 2018 election around the corner, this is a conversation we all need to be having.
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White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism by Kevin Kruse
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 16, 2020 10:15:48 GMT
Wednesday, Sep 19 2018 • 11 a.m. (ET) Vulnerable Voters Listen the1a.org/audio/#/shows/2018-09-19/vulnerable-voters/115563/@00:00 Excerpt From Allan Lichtman's "The Embattled Vote In America"
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Excerpt From Carol Anderson's "One Person, No Vote"
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A woman exits a polling station on New York state's primary election day, September 13, 2018 in Brooklyn. DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES
The right to vote as a U.S. citizen is not guaranteed by the Constitution.
And two new books highlight how the right to vote in America is under attack.
Efforts to reduce voter turnout and voter access are not recent and they’ve long been racialized. Author and Emory University professor Carol Anderson points to the election in 2000 as one of the more egregious examples.
A recent article by her in The Guardian says:
The 21st century is, in fact, littered with the bodies of black votes. In the 2000 presidential election, which George W Bush won in the sunshine state by 537 ballots, Florida kept African Americans from the polls or ensured that their votes would never be added to the state’s tally. The policing was multi-tentacled. On election day, there were faulty voting machines, purged voter rolls (purges that targeted minorities) and locked gates at polling places that should have been opened. There was also a Florida Highway Patrol checkpoint at the only road leading to the polls in key, heavily black precincts in Jacksonville. Then there were the piles of ballots, especially in counties with large minority populations, left uncounted. The US Civil Rights Commission “concluded that, of the 179,855 ballots invalidated by Florida officials, 53% were cast by black voters. In Florida,” the commission’s report continued, “a black citizen was 10 times as likely to have a vote rejected as a white voter.”
Author and historian Lichtman says these maneuvers are drawn along party lines. Here he is, speaking to Vox:
…these rules divide along party lines. The Republican Party knows that their base is white, Christian, older men, which is the most shrinking part of the American electorate. Whereas the Democratic base tends to be among minorities, young people, nonreligious people, which are the most accelerating demographics in the American electorate.
Republicans can’t manufacture more old white Christian men, but they can attempt to limit the voting of the Democratic Party base. That’s why voter suppression efforts have escalated so much in recent years, and it’s why we’re now in a period of backsliding.
Anderson’s new book is called “One Person, No Vote.” Lichtman’s is “The Embattled Vote In America.”
What’s the status on voter suppression efforts across the country? What can we do to protect the right to vote?
Produced by Stef Collett. Text by Gabrielle Healy.
Guests Carol Anderson Professor of African-American Studies, Emory University; author, "One Person, No Vote"; @profcanderson Allan Lichtman Distinguished professor of history, American University; author, "The Embattled Vote in America" @allanlichtman Sean Young Legal Director, the ACLU of Georgia; @sean_J_Young Excerpt From Allan Lichtman's "The Embattled Vote In America" Excerpt From "The Embattled Vote in America" by wamu885 on Scribd
Excerpt From Carol Anderson's "One Person, No Vote" From ‘One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy’. Used with permission of Bloomsbury. Copyright 2018 by Carol Anderson. This excerpt originally appeared on Lit Hub (https://lithub.com/the-voters-who-disappeared-from-the-rolls/). Excerpt from ‘One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy’. by wamu885 on Scribd
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